by tsalagi red

We have decided to post our mystery novel, Bartlett House to the web in it’s entirety. The first eight chapters are now up, and we will release another one each Thursday, through May 7, 2009.

You can find it here: Bartlett House: A Will Adelhardt - Lucy Hidalgo Mystery.

Bartlett House takes place in Portland, Oregon.

by tsalagi red

The Germaine Truth is back up and running again. We are still working on other projects, so it hasn’t been updated for some time. We hope to start working on it again soon.

Also, check out my new sci-fi trilogy-in-progress. It’s called Sweetland.

by tsalagi red

We are having difficulty updating The Germaine Truth, so if you have arrived at this page, we apologize. We hope to have it up again soon.

by tsalagi red

Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama

by tsalagi red

Wall Street is about to fleece America —again. Citizens should be loudly demanding that any bailout benefit the taxpayers who will be saddle with the trillion dollar debt. Here are some good solutions:

Bernie Sanders: The Middle Class Must Not Be Forced to Bail Out Wall Street Greed

Chris Hedges: Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury

Kucinich: No ‘cash for trash,’ give taxpayers a stake in bailout

by tsalagi red

A good article by Chris Hedges on Truthdig:
Link: Truthdig - Reports - Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention
     

by pattyjo

by pattyjo

Democracy in America is dead. It is official.
Anti-Republican activists, correction–those suspected of being anti-Republican activists, in Minneapolis this week encountered police who aimed rifles at them. This was not even a crowd of protesters. Just people in a van. On the street. In Minneapolis.
While McCain is being annointed to assume the mantle of [...]

by tsalagi red

and in those days
we sought enlitenment
that low calorie cool
whip of knowledge,
flagellating one another’s
bourgeois backsides
before the cameras
of the six oclock news
until the pain became
too much to bear

now we spend our days
baring our pain on the internet
watching Fox News
gotcha choppers
sky cams hovering
over half naked starlets
thinking about when
we were the actors
       thinking
if we’d only been smarter then

by pattyjo

The Age of Delightenment, as it is now so named, began as the 20th century entered its mid-point. After the second of wars considered world wars in that century, there was a hunger to put aside the darkness and sadness and horror born of these wars. Most of the world, Europe, Great Britain, Northern Africa, parts of Asia, Japan and certain of the Pacific Island nations would not so easily shed the memories of war because these were living wounds in the landscape, scars too visible and too deep to turn away from. But America, that enchanted place between the Atlantic and Pacific, in that place the scars were mostly hidden in the men who returned, or visible where limbs were lost or eyes gone blind, but it was easy enough to shunt these off where they would not be troublesome reminders of unpleasantness.